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Ten Best Books of 2019

December 20, 2019

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  Well, what do you know. Rather than being my usual contrarian self, I actually have ten books I consider to be the best of 2019. Of course, that doesn’t include the eight debut novels I ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: book clubs, favorite books, lists, literary

August Reading Wrap-Up

September 2, 2019

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What a month! I hope you all had a more vacation-y time in August than I did. The month wasn’t bad, it was just a time of adjustment—Jed moved to Ann Arbor for his job, I stayed here and began the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: coming-of-age, friendship, literary, mini-reviews, television

Dark Fiction: A Ladder to the Sky

December 7, 2018

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So far this week I’ve reviewed two very dark, but outstanding novels. It’s time to wrap up the week and I’m back with a surprising (to me) author: John Boyne. His last novel, The Heart’s Invisible ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, literary

Anatomy of a Miracle

March 26, 2018

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  Cameron Harris is a patriotic young man who goes to Afghanistan and returns home paralyzed from the waist down after stepping on an IED. When Jonathan Miles’s new novel, Anatomy of a ... Read More...

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The Heart’s Invisible Furies

November 7, 2017

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  Cyril Avery’s birth was not a propitious one. He came into the world onto the floor of a tiny apartment, next to the unconscious body of his mother’s roommate, with the roommate’s lover lying ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, childhood, coming-of-age, Hogarth, Ireland, literary, social issues

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